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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785199303321

Autore

Romo Anadelia A

Titolo

Brazil's living museum [[electronic resource] ] : race, reform, and tradition in Bahia / / Anadelia A. Romo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0408-6

0-8078-9594-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

981/.42

Soggetti

Black people - Brazil - Bahia (State) - Government relations

Black people - Race identity - Brazil - Bahia (State) - History

Politics and culture - Brazil - Bahia (State) - History

Bahia (Brazil : State) History

Bahia (Brazil : State) Race relations

Bahia (Brazil : State) Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Between Africa and Athens : Bahia's search for identity -- Finding a cure for Bahia -- Contests of culture -- Preserving the past -- Debating African roots -- Embattled modernization and the retrenchment of tradition.

Sommario/riassunto

Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Chronicling the discourse among intellectuals and state officials during the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Anadelia Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity. Romo examines id